YA Bound Book Tours is organizing a Blog Tour for: Oppression (Children of the Gods #1)by Jessica Therrien. This tour will run from October 19th to October 23rd. Check out the full blog tour schedule below:

Elyse knows what
it means to keep a secret. She's been keeping secrets her whole life. Two,
actually. First, that she ages five times slower than average people, so that
while she looks eighteen years old, she's well over eighty. Second, that her
blood has a mysterious power to heal.

For Elyse, these
things don't make her special. They make life dangerous. After the death of her
parents, she's been careful to keep her secret as closely guarded as possible.
Now, only one other person in the world knows about her age and ability. Or so
she thinks. Elyse is not the only one keeping secrets. There are others like
her all over the world, descendants of the very people the Greeks considered
gods. She is one of them, and they have been waiting for her for a long time.

Some are waiting
for her to put an end to centuries of traditions that have oppressed their
people under the guise of safeguarding them. Others are determined to keep her
from doing just that. But for Elyse, the game is just beginning-and she's not
entirely willing to play by their rules

About the Author

Jessica Therrien is the author of the young adult paranormal fiction series Children of the Gods. Book one in the series, Oppression, became a Barnes & Noble best-seller shortly after its release in February of 2012.Aside from her Children of the Gods series, Jessica’s work can also be found in a published collection of flash fiction stories called Campaigner Challenges 2011. Out of over 350 submissions her story, The Soulless,won first place for people’s choice and fourth place in the judging round of Rachael Harrie’s Writing Campaign Challenge. Her story, Saved, is also available as part of the anthology.

Jessica spent most of her life in the small town of Chilcoot, California, high up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. In this town of nearly 100 residents, with no street lights or grocery stores, there was little to do but find ways to be creative. Her mother, the local English teacher, inspired her to do all things artistic, and ultimately instilled in her a love for language.

In 2003, Jessica attended California State University Long Beach where her passion for language found her studying Chinese, and in 2005 she moved to Taiwan to study abroad. From 2005 to 2006 Jessica was fully immersed in the Chinese language as she attended National Taiwan University, and in 2008 she graduated from San Diego State University magna cum laude.

Jessica currently lives in Irvine with her husband and two sons. She is planning a re-release of her series through Acorn Publishing in September of 2015. The re-release will include the third and final book in her Children of the Gods series as well as a bonus chapter in the back of Oppression.